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my 1980 special has 67,00 km,s or 41.5 thou miles with regular maintenance how many miles or kilometers might this bike go??? ride safe slow mo!
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The Belfast Express {1980 xs11oo special/TC fuse box/mikes xs pods/bad boy horn!/mikes green coils/mac 4 into 2 exhaust/ standard bars/vetter fairing c/w ipod CD iphone am/fm radio/tkat fork brace ,,,tuned by tinman
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i AM THE KING OF NOTHING
the people here are great , doesn't matter about the bike really/hamjam //// -
Your just breaking it in Mo!
Steppenwolf is the original owner of his SG. It is well over 80k, might be in the area of 90k miles by now. IT recently got a new cam chain, but otherwise IRRC it is factory parts engine wise. Not so much as the gear repair ever needed.
We did swap out for Honda coils, and it has had the pick-up coils repaired.
I know I have read of folks hitting well over 120-140k miles with no major engine work.
So change that baby's diaper and get ready for a long relationship.
Life is what happens while your planning everything else!
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81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection
Previously owned
93 GSX600F
80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
81 XS1100 Special
81 CB750 C
80 CB750 C
78 XS750 -
My current motor has well over 100k hard miles since rebuild, but Bob Jones had one with over 225k miles all original except the final drive that locked up on him because he didn't check the fluid. Last I knew of, someone bought that bike and is still riding it? If you look at the cover of his book, it's the Long Miles bike pictured with him on the cover.
That being said... I think it's harder on a bike to sit or get just periodically ridden vs one that gets ridden often.Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still ownComment
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